members of non-Australian defence forces (and their dependants) stationed in Australia.

The Jervis Bay Territory, the Australian Antarctic Territory, and the Territories of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands are also excluded, as is customary for ABS Household Surveys.

Supplementary surveys also have further exclusions, which are generally related to specifically targeting the populations of interest. For example, the Retirement and Retirement Intentions, Australia (cat. no. 6238.0) Survey further restricts the scope to people aged 45 years and over, as this is the relevant population that is targeted for a survey about retirement and retirement intentions.

Other typical exclusions in the supplementary surveys include :

people living in very remote parts of Australia; and

people living in non-private dwellings such as hotels, university residences, students at boarding schools, patients in hospitals, residents of homes (e.g. retirement homes, homes for people with disabilities), and inmates of prisons.

(Note: These people are not excluded from the main LFS).

In addition, supplementary surveys are only asked of seven-eighths of the LFS, with the exception of the Multipurpose Household Survey and its topics, which is only asked from a selected person from households in the outgoing rotation group (one-eighths of the LFS sample). Refer to the relevant supplementary survey publications for further information regarding exclusions.

No further exclusions have been applied to the Longitudinal Labour Force Survey (LLFS) CURF. Each respondent in the monthly LFS has been included in the LLFS CURF.